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be adopted in future.
On the 15th April 1875 an application was received by Mr. Smith, the Acting Colonial Secretary, from W. Hebb, Control Department, for payment of the Military Contribution for March Quarter of 1875. No note was taken of this application, Mr. Smith recording on it that notice of it could not be taken, as it had not come through the Assistant Military Secretary.
On the 23rd April, Captain Molony, Assistant Commissary General, wrote privately to Mr. Smith to point out that all transactions about raising and issuing money were Treasury questions and not Military Office questions, and that consequently the Military Secretary had nothing whatever to do with them, and on the 27th April Captain Molony wrote officially to the Acting Colonial Secretary renewing the application for payment of the Military Contribution for the March Quarter.
Meanwhile, however, on the 26th April, Mr. Smith had written privately to the Assistant Military Secretary, and had asked him whether the Major General's memo was intended to apply even to purely Financial Matters, as hitherto in all matters in which the Controller was acting as the authorized Agent of the Treasury,
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